Categories: Aquaponics, Classes & Events, What's Happening
On Saturday we had an amazing group effort from all of our participants to get an aquaponics system from bare ground to a functioning system in one day. It was great to see how all the parts go together and the details involved. Everyone involved got a very detailed level of hands-on understanding that can […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep
On August 19th at DCP we began cleaning the IBCs, which we use as fish tanks, before we introduce new fish in the next two weeks. In order to clean the organic matter harboring anaerobic bacteria on the bottom of the tanks we used the siphoning method that Ojan suggested. Siphoning […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep
Intern Elizabeth typed up a lab report analyzing our data collected from the first month of summer, cycling our system at DCP: July 21, 2014: Lab Report of DCP Aquaponics System IntroductionThe purpose of the analysis of this data is to observe the cycling relationship between the levels of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and fish […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep, Garden Design
This week we replaced the pump at the DCP site. We upgraded from an 8 watt pump to a 20 watt pump and installed an AC inverter to our solar panel to power it. This increased flow should help to oxygenate the water. This will also increase to flow through the swirl filter […]
Categories: Aquaponics
We interns have been acclimating well to the environment here at CNGF! Unfortunately the Channel Catfish that Ojan mentioned in the previous post have not been doing so well. We lost approximately half of our catfish at Downtown College Prep (DCP). We hypothesized the fish died due to a deficiency in oxygen levels. Perhaps an […]